1. Everything in Scripture is God revealing himself to his people, you and me.
  2. The Parable of the Lost Sheep bursts through the confines of convention and demands that we embrace the messiness of life and the unpredictable ways in which God's grace and forgiveness operates.
  3. One word from one God says it all to our tired hearts.
  4. Caesar boasted: “I came. I saw. I conquered.” Christ can rightly say: “I came. I saved. I ascended.”
  5. We live for the most part, on the strength of our moral fiber, under the law, by our zeal for God and all that which tickles our proud fancy.
  6. Jesus is the only answer to the nagging question. He is the only way to make sense of this unsettling story in Exodus 4.
  7. Tim wanted everyone to know to the deepest part of their being that they were justified by Christ alone.
  8. What might Christians of the Reformation tradition think of claims like these about the nature of salvation?
  9. Jesus makes David’s words his own, because David’s words were Christ’s to begin with.
  10. What greater legacy could you claim than that of Mark? Listen to the Word. Learn from Jesus.
  11. The drama of Scripture is about God renaming us by bringing us into his image-bearing family once again. And it would take “a name above all names” to accomplish it.
  12. This is an excerpt from part two of “On Any Given Sunday: The Story of Christ in the Divine Service” by Mike Berg (1517 Publishing, 2023).